Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy
"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...
Feb 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo
How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...
Feb 5, 2010 / John Nichols
The Expanding US War in Pakistan The Expanding US War in Pakistan
Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously ackno...
Feb 4, 2010 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry
The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.
Feb 4, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan
Noted. Noted.
Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.
Feb 4, 2010 / The Editors
Zinn’s Critical History Zinn’s Critical History
Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Remembering the pragmatic radical.
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Bring on the Filibuster Bring on the Filibuster
Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.
Feb 4, 2010 / Thomas Geoghegan and The Editors
Republican Senators: You Lie Republican Senators: You Lie
Republican Senators come out against the Obama administration's handling if the Underwear bomber, yet, they are "wrong, wrong, wrong."
Feb 4, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Protests in Iran Protests in Iran
A week after the contested June 2009 presidential election, the image of blood covering the face of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan dead in a street in Tehran became the symbol of the...
Feb 4, 2010 / Peter Rothberg